Black Square : Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism / Aleksandra Shatskikh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shatskikh, Aleksandra, Author.

Contributor:

Schwartz, Marian

Standardized Title:

Chernyi kvadrat. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935.

Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich.

Suprematism in art.

Art--Russia--20th century--History.

Art.

Art--Soviet Union--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xvii, 346 pages) ) illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

Kazimir Malevich's painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture at its inception. None of Malevich's contemporary revolutionaries created a manifesto, an emblem, as capacious and in its own way unique as this work; it became both the quintessence of the Russian avant-gardist's own art-which he called Suprematism-and a milestone on the highway of world art. Writing about this single painting, Aleksandra Shatskikh sheds new light on Malevich, the Suprematist movement, and the Russian avant-garde.Malevich devoted his entire life to explicating Black Square's meanings. This process engendered a great legacy: the original abstract movement in painting and its theoretical grounding; philosophical treatises; architectural models; new art pedagogy; innovative approaches to theater, music, and poetry; and the creation of a new visual environment through the introduction of decorative applied designs. All of this together spoke to the tremendous potential for innovative shape and thought formation concentrated in Black Square.To this day, many circumstances and events of the origins of Suprematism have remained obscure and have sprouted arbitrary interpretations and fictions. Close study of archival materials and testimonies of contemporaries synchronous to the events described has allowed this author to establish the true genesis of Suprematism and its principal painting.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

From the Author

List of Abbreviations

Fevralism, Forerunner of Suprematism

The Rise of Suprematism

Suprematism in Fall 1915

N. M. Davydova and Suprematism's Public Affirmation

Russian and English Geo Metric Nonobjectivity

The First Verbovka Exhibition

The "Amazons" and Suprematism

"0.10": The Last Futurist Exhibition

Vladimir Tatlin's "Store" Exhibition

"I The Apostle of New Concepts in Art . . . ,"

1916: Under the Sign of Supremus

The Supremus Society in the First Half of 1917

Supremus

Kazimir Malevich and Nikolai Roslavets

Aleksei Kruchenykh in Supremus

"Azef-Judas-Khlebnikov"

The Supremus Society's Finale

Malevich's Color-Painting in Late 1917 and the First Half of 1918

"There Can be No Question of Painting in Suprematism,"

Epilogue

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300162295

0-300-16229-4

OCLC:

861793467